S.C.G

Cannot... fracking... wait!

Now THIS is the kind of thing I like to hear! Unified account system? Yes please Nintendo, if you're merging the balances then you are halfway there! Next they'll be announcing GBA games for Wii U and it'll be something like... 'For those of you who are 3DS ambassadors and who already have Game Boy Advance games on your 3DS, you will now be able to link your account so you can download and play your GBA games on your Wii U also.' 'But this will not happen until June 2016 when it will be the fifteenth anniversary of the Game Boy Advance.' 'Please Understand!' In a nutshell. :p

Got it for around £50 once I'd used my remaining site credit on it.

Yes but even after all that, at the end it has arrows pointing 'NEW CONSOLE' and 'NEW CONTROLLER' so the average person would have to be pretty stupid not to know that it's a brand new machine... ... ah wait, we're talking about the general public here, I see your point. : peace: Seriously though, these adverts have got to sell at least a handful of systems surely? Otherwise this is getting rather ridiculous even if we have got effectively a major game each month coming out. As I've said before I'm not actually hugely bothered by this, I'll still get to enjoy all of these great games so I just find the situation amusing... it's funny because we can only help Nintendo so much but they don't seem to want to help themselves. They seem to be purely relying on people who already have the console to keep it afloat at this point.

The advert is bad... by our standards, lest we forget though that the majority of the general public barely has any standards so I suppose it will do! :p I'm sure it won't mean that Nintendo will sell any less Wii U consoles atm, because even the most die-hard fan-boy will tell you that right now, that's not possible. Everything is surely on the up from here! : peace:

I just posted a few semi-ridiculous predictions... I don't really expect them to come true. :p Please Understand.

'Wii U is now £179.99 with New Super Mario Brothers U' 'Please Understand' 'Ambassador Scheme, 10 free SNES games, 10 free GBA games including Mother 3 plus a Pikmin keyring' 'Please Understand' 'Super Mario 3D World delayed until 2014' 'Please Understand, Please Understand, Please Understand...' 'Reggie in Smash Bros' *insert ReggieShrug.jpg here*

In a way yes, but in other places it still needs polish so there's still room for improvement. Definitely get rid of the dud characters though such as Danica Patrick... I mean really? Such a rubbish choice even if it did earn Sega a bit of cross-promotion, I don't think it was worth it. Also for the All-Star moves, they should have kept Sonic/Shadow going 'Super' as that was one of the best part for me in the original.

I think you're right to a point, if Nintendo had their Wii U games available in more shops - like supermarkets - then it would be beneficial for them to lower the price at least a little bit, lets say no Wii U game any more than £29.99... ... but as things are all we have in my local branch is less than three Wii U games mixed in with the Wii games :/ which just creates confusion so the prices vary wildly; NSMBU was around £45 when it was on the shelf whereas the other day we got one copy of Epic Mickey 2 for the Wii U in for a tenner - which I bought - but that's it, so as things are there really isn't much incentive for them to do anything with the prices even though they are losing out in some places. Nintendo needs to change a lot more than just game prices, but hopefully we will see that change in the coming months... or at least I really hope so. : peace: Either way I'll still keep buying my games online - currently the cheapest/best way - and will still buy most Nintendo games for full price, not Game & Wario though, that can now wait until it's less than £5. :p

It most certainly is not, I can guarantee this as you sold me your copy! Sonic & All-Stars *takes a breath* Racing Transformed might not be better than Mario Kart if we're all honest but it's most definitely a well made racing game that contains heaps of Sega nostalgia, the odd glitch and a fantastic online multiplayer mode that Nintendo would do well to look at for inspiration... ... so long as they make it better than that of course, which they will I'm sure. :p I can safely say that I would like another Sega Racing game, just not for another year or two.

'Oh Nasty!' My childhood summed up in two words. :p Gotta love Knightmare.

Nostalgia... it's a funny thing, I suddenly got the urge to play Ocarina of Time again for old times sake, so I loaded up OoT 3D and decided to start Master Quest for the first time... Surprisingly tough, yet refreshingly different. Also I decided to check from my original completed save file just how long ago it had been since I'd played it... was only exactly a year to the day! :p ----------------------------------------- As for Wind Waker HD... I genuinely can't wait to play it again, not just because I love replaying old Zelda games but because it's a remake that's entirely justified, the same as OoT 3D was; btw I still find it amazing that I can play one of the greatest games of all time on a portable machine AND in 3D. I fully expect to load up The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker HD on launch day for the game to feel fresh and amazing just like it always was, if not more so... it's surely going to be an experience to remember.

Amusingly though, you can get Call of Duty very cheaply on release in some places such as Tesco... very cheaply if you're 'clever' about it - even though I know there's nothing clever about COD really - but this is what I do most years... COD is £5 deposit, wait until it's a £5 off £40 voucher week, effectively £5 pre-order costs nothing On release date game is 'Only £25 when you buy a 2100 MS point card/£25 PSN' So the game goes down to £25, less the £5 deposit and (for me) 10% staff discount = COD for effectively £18! For most Nintendo games though, it's just a case of I'll buy them full price on release because unlike COD they are actually worth paying the full RRP, besides... Pikmin 3 was only around £30 on release which is pretty good.

IT'S PIKACHU!!! ... 'It's Koffing!' DAMNITTT!

Because they are worth the money? Most of those 'top tier' Nintendo games become collectable within a few years too, so it's quite good if you're a collector. I know what you're saying though, who is going to pay £34.99 for NSMB Wii when NSMBU is the same price or less?

Interesting... I'm actually up to Season two at the moment so I'll watch it after 'Black Market' I could have sworn that it stated on Wikipedia that Razor takes place between seasons three and four, though I most likely read this wrong, anyway consider my viewing chronology updated. Everything else is correct though surely?

I've been watching the series on DVD but I'm enjoying it so much that I decided to take the plunge and get them all on Blu-Ray, once I've watched the series I'll then watch them all chronologically... Caprica - Blood & Chrome - Mini-series - BSG S1-3 - Razor - BSG S4/Final - The Plan Pretty sure that's correct? Either way I'm really glad that I decided to get it when I did as it's a really fantastic series.

Buy eeeet naaaaaaaaow! Seriously, game is amazing, I spent a good hundred hours or so on it over a couple of months.

^ Reminds me of the 'Walking Leaf' in Animal Crossing.

... Words cannot even... At this point I really don't care any more, the games will still come out for the system - Nintendo ones - and I'll enjoy them when they come along, the system might not be selling but I have my Wii U so right now I'm just thinking 'why should I care?' Yes it would be nice to know that the console I own is doing well but ultimately, the company who made the console aren't just suddenly going to stop making games for it so... Might as well enjoy the Wii U as if it's Nintendo's last home console!

The first three Shin Megami Tensei: Persona games are on sale via PSN. *Persona = £7.00 Persona 2 = £11.00 Persona 3 = £11.00 Just happened to notice this last night, so naturally I am downloading them now. *Prices approximate, additionally Playstation Plus members get an extra 50 pence off or something, offer runs for about 2 weeks.

Ah... well that's something only Iun can answer.

Time difference... @Iun lives in Shanghai, so if something was posted mid-afternoon here it could have been the small hours of the morning over there, I guess getting into a heated debate at that time would not be good for obvious reasons; at least I think that's what he meant. In any case, I'm sure it doesn't matter that much who is right or wrong? I can see it from both sides, in those situations I suppose you could consider actions by either side to be 'rude' but personally I don't see anything particularly wrong with what Iun did; would I have responded in exactly the same way in those situations? Probably not... but honestly, in the case of the 'bottle crackling' incident I actually approve of the 'polite shushing' as there is really nothing more annoying than having to be subjected that that kind of noise. But then I've never actually been to China so I can't really say a great deal, I understand that it's an entirely different culture over there though, ultimately I respect both of your opinions, overall though much worse things happen and I see many more examples of rudeness in one single shift of my workplace, not that one thing counter-acts the other or anything... just trying to put things into perspective. : peace: I'll shut up now.

I can just imagine Serebii opening the box... Iwata: 'Hello Joe, I have been brought direct to you on your birthday!' Serebii: 'But I wanted Miyamoto!' Iwata: 'Please understand!'